From Smith to Sullivan, Sanders to Myers, and Reyes to Roberts, read on for the most popular family names found across the United States! The History of Last Names Surnames, also known as family names, were first used during medieval times and usually referred to a person's occupation (i...
This is where the last names 'White' and 'Black' come from as well as the last names of ownership like 'Jacobs.' Additionally, the Native Americans, who lived in the US long before the Americans, never had surnames. Instead, they had multi-part first names. Sometimes, Americans would ...
At right you’ll see the surnames of the testers along with their Earliest Known Ancestor (EKA) if they have entered that information. Initially, you don’t even realize you’re actually looking at two types of information merged together. This display allows testers to see the genetic ...